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Internet gambling: Next sure thing?
Columbus Dispatch
LAS VEGAS — Internet gambling, the next frontier for casinos, occupied center stage last week at Las Vegas' Global Gaming Expo, known as G2E. What form I-gambling will take and how it will be regulated are anyone's guess, but the industry already is ...

Columbus Dispatch

HTC Profit Falls 79% Amid Competition
Wall Street Journal
... lucrative market for smartphones. Taiwan-based HTC, which has been losing ground against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. in the smartphone market, said its third-quarter net profit totaled 3.9 billion New Taiwan dollars ($133 million), off ...

Google Finally Pushing for Tablet-Specific Android Apps
Wired
While Apple proudly touts that more than 250,000 apps have been built specifically for the iPad, Google has declined to say just how many tablet-specific apps exist forAndroid and has instead boasted about its ecosystem of apps built to run on both ...

Wired

Motorola pulls all tablets, most smartphones from German store
ZDNet
In a separate case last month, a Munich court said that Motorola Mobility must recall everyAndroid smartphone and tablet that was then on sale in Germany that infringe a patent belonging to Apple. Depending on the cost that the Cupertino, CA.-based ...

Daily Deal: $50 off Samsung Galaxy S2 Android Tablet
Mobile Magazine
Been pondering whether to get one of Samsung's new Galaxy tablets? Now may be a good time, because the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 is now for sale on Amazon for just $248. The tablet runs onAndroid 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, with 8GB internal storage, Wi-Fi ...

Next Nexus phone coming from LG: No consistency in the brand
ZDNet
In addition to the (soon to be) three different companies building Nexus phones, the first tablet from Google (Nexus 7) is build by Asus. That partnership was a surprise given both HTC and Samsung have built Android tablets for a while. The Nexus 7 is...

ZDNet

Motorola Drops Webtop Phone-as-PC Concept
CIO Today
DiDio also noted that, when Google bought Motorola Mobility, it "got the technology and the patents, but not the people," and that it was the engineers who had championed Webtop. Google reportedly made the decision to kill Motorola's Webtop. A ...

CIO Today

Windows Phone 8 Spells Disaster for Blackberry
NBCNews.com
Blackberry maker Research in Motion has seen their share of the smartphone market slide from a peak of 20.8% in 2009 down to 5.2% as their phones fell out of favor with consumers. RIM was slow to innovate and ... The two operating systems are set to go ...

Alcatel One Touch T10 Android tablet unveiled
AndroidGuys
Of course it's not an easy task but Alcatel is planning big and targeting Google Nexus7 with their new device. Presenting the Alcatel One Touch T10, a 7-inch Androidpowered tablet running on Android 4.0 a.k.a Ice Cream Sandwich. It's expected that...

AndroidGuys

BlackBerry 10: Why RIM needs to fight like Apple to survive
Computerworld (blog)
Research and Motion (RIM) has been pronounced dead so often it's only got two ways to go: die, or fight back like Apple [AAPL] and the firm's R&D spend hints at a fight back, probably just in time for next year's key Mobile World Congress event in ...

Plethora of iOS apps keeps users around despite rollout glitches
CNET
Yang was addressing the Taiwan market, but this argument could easily apply to other markets like the U.S. where there's been a wide range of complaints about iOS 6 including Apple's maps app and Wi-Fi connectivity. ... I've had two Android phones and ...

The iPad Mini Buzz And The Smartphone/Tablet Divide | Forrester ...
By Thomas Husson
The biggest iPad mini conundrum is likely to be pricing — making sure that the new device remains competitive in the face of the iPad 2 and iPad 3 and the newly launched iPod Touch but also with Google's $199 Nexus 7 and the new $199 ...
Forrester Blogs

Android 4.2 rumors: Project Roadrunner, improved Nexus program ...
By Andrew Kalinchuk
The new program will certainly offer incentive for Android-focused companies like HTC and Samsung. Besides the prestige that comes along with the Nexus brand, the devices will feature a new media streaming service offered via Google ...

Leaked HTC One X Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ROM is available
By Mihaita Bamburic
HTC promised the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the One X since almost three months ago, and alongside the newly introduced One X+ the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer announced the elusive update will hit its.
BetaNews

Samsung releases source code for Galaxy Note II | Android ...
By Dave LeClair
Samsung has decided to release the Source Code for the Galaxy Note II. The device has been released in select European countries and that means that custom ROM developers are looking to sink their teeth into the code. If you like installing ...
Android Community

Galaxy S III Awarded Best Smartphone, iPad The Best Tablet At ...
The 2012 Mobile Choice Awards have just taken place in London and the results are in - withSamsung's Galaxy S III coming out on top as Best Smartphone of ...
www.redmondpie.com/galaxy-s-iii-awarded-best-smartphone-i...

Internet Meltdown at LoL World Championships Shows eSports Has a Problem
Forbes
It was a frustrating weekend for fans of League of Legends, the most popular game in the world, and subsequently most popular professionally played eSport. Thursday, Friday and Saturday marked the playoffs for the World Championships, and teams from...

Forbes

More airlines providing Wi-Fi in the sky
San Jose Mercury News
Even so, Wi-Fi Internet access has expanded to 153 million passengers in 2011 from 153,000 in 2009, according to Gogo Wireless, a Wi-Fi provider for airlines. According to a report this year from the Chaddick Institute, the percentage of air travelers ...

UK's first 4G network just switched on - and it's not from EE
Register
While EE's 4G mobile network won't be switched on until the end of October, Blighty's other 4Gnetwork went live over the weekend. ISP UK Broadband uses 4G LTE to beam high-speed internetconnectivity wirelessly to homes and offices. However its ...

EU set to give antitrust clearance to UK rural broadband scheme
ZDNet
Summary: The EU competition commission is poised to allow the BDUK rural broadband rollout to go ahead with only minor changes, but will the decision make it any easier for smaller companies to challenge BT's dominance? Ben Woods. By Ben Woods ...

Sprint Delivers a Turnkey Mobile Broadband Solution for Pay-per-Use Data ...
DailyFinance
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sprint (NYS: S) Global Wholesale & Emerging Solutions today introduces Mobile Broadband on Demand, a new solution that allows companies in the international, retail, travel and hospitality industries to generate new revenue streams ...

Meet John Klensin, Internet History's Jack of All Trades
Wired
Klensin was part of a small group of academics and other minds who built the ARPAnet — a research network funded by the U.S. Department of Defense — and gradually turned it into the worldwide internet we know today. He's the author of over 40 Request ...

Wired

Power of the internet gives Jones a dose of own medicine
The Australian
Their revenues have plummeted as advertising has moved to the internet in general and Google in particular. The broadsheets have been hardest hit because the classifieds, once their rivers of gold, have almost completely moved to the digital realm.

Looking Beyond 4G: U.K. Uni Secures £35M For 5G R&D Center, Backed By ...
TechCrunch
It's no secret the U.K. has been a 4G laggard, with LTE only now finally starting to get off the ground — a small local broadband provider has just switched on the first commercial 4G network, while the first big 4G deployment from a mobile operator ...

U.K. Ad-Funded Mobile Broadband Startup, Samba Mobile, Raises ...
By Natasha Lomas
Samba Mobile, a UK startup founded in 2010 which incentivises ad-watching by offering free 3G mobile broadband for desktop PC, laptop and tablet users in exchange for watching video adverts, has raised just shy of £1m -- £929000 -- in ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft, Boingo offer free Wi-Fi in NYC and San Francisco as ...
By Chris Welch
If you're looking to generate positive buzz around a major new product, giving consumers free Wi-Fitypically goes a long way towards achieving that goal. So it should come as no surprise that, as...
The Verge - All Posts

Halloween Costume Inspiration: Internet Obsessions - The Frisky
By Winona Dimeo-Ediger
Wondering what to be this Halloween? Why don't you bring an internet meme to life? Here are seven of our favorite internet obsessions and tips on how to turn them into awkward, awesome, unforgettable costumes. And yes, two of them are ...
The Frisky

How will next-generation Internet transform urban mobility? | FI-PPP
By susanna
Instant Mobility is a 2-year research project in the EUFuture Internet Public-Private Partnership programme(FI-PPP) that is exploring the potential of Future Internet technologies to improve the mobility of people and goods, and the operation of ...
FI-PPP

General Assembly Launches European Sweepstakes To Celebrate ...
By Jamillah Knowles
Internet Week Europe is nearly upon us. Running from November 12 – 16, the event celebrates industry, technology and community across the continent. To mark the occasion, General Assembly London and Berlin are teaming up to host a ...
The Next Web

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